Singh, Pummi Mehl, Hillary L Orbach, Marc J Callicott, Kenneth A Cotty, Peter J
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Plant disease
Dried red chili (Capsicum spp.), a widely produced and consumed spice in Nigeria, is often contaminated by aflatoxins. Aflatoxins are potent mycotoxins of severe health and economic concern worldwide. Aspergillus flavus often contaminates crops with aflatoxins in warm regions; however, not all isolates are aflatoxin producers. Nonaflatoxigenic isol...
Jensen, Kim Toft, Søren Sørensen, Jesper G Holmstrup, Martin
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Bulletin of entomological research
The quality of biological control agents used in augmentative releases may be affected by rearing conditions due to inbreeding or laboratory adaptation, or to phenotypic effects of the rearing environment. We hypothesized that individuals from a wild population would be in better body condition and kill more prey than individuals from a commerciall...
Li, Zhigang Liu, Tong
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Phytopathology
Wang, Leyun Etebari, Kayvan Zhao, Zihua Walter, Gimme H Furlong, Michael J
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Insect science
Understanding the thermal dynamics of host-parasitoid interactions is crucial to predicting how biological control of pest insects by parasitoids might be affected by geographic location and climate change. We compared performance traits of Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) and its solitary endo-larval parasitoid Diadegma semiclausum (...
Desurmont, G A Tannières, M Roche, M Blanchet, A Manoukis, N C
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Journal of Insect Science
The augmentorium is a cost-effective screened enclosure designed to receive fruits infested with insect pests, retain the pests inside but let their natural enemies escape to enhance biological control of pest populations. Screen selection is critical to ensure that an augmentorium is effective for a particular system. Here we tested five types of ...
carlucci;, antonia
Fennel crop is a horticultural plant susceptible to several soil-borne fungal pathogens responsible for yield losses. The control of fungal diseases occurring on fennel crops is very difficult with conventional and/or integrated means; although several chemical fungicides are able to contain specific fungal diseases, they are not registered for fen...
Lemay, Jason Zheng, Youbin Scott-Dupree, Cynthia
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Frontiers in Agronomy
Current biological control strategies in cannabis (Cannabis sativa) cultivation have resulted in poor efficacy for managing certain insect pests. The cannabis industry has grown at a rapid pace, surpassing our ability to develop knowledge on the production systems for this crop. Currently, the research focus is on optimizing agronomic and environme...
paudel;, sulav
It is now more than 100 years since the coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB: Oryctes rhinoceros L.) was first detected in the Pacific Island state of Samoa. The exotic pest from Asia became the principal pest of coconut palms in Samoa and, from this first point of invasion, spread to several surrounding countries in the South-West Pacific Ocean. An inte...
xia;, yandong
Endophytes represent a ubiquitous and magical world in plants. Almost all plant species studied by different researchers have been found to harbor one or more endophytes, which protect host plants from pathogen invasion and from adverse environmental conditions. They produce various metabolites that can directly inhibit the growth of pathogens and ...
Parra, L M Garcia, A G Alves, G R Magro, S R Parra, J R P
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Journal of Insect Science
The expansion of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), including biological control, has had several positive consequences for the agricultural environment and participants in the production chain. To enable successful operation and applications of biological control, production of insects used for rearing natural enemies (parasitoids and predators) mu...
